Hesse Hall will be open for visitors to experience some of Mechanical Engineering's Instructional Laboratories, including materials testing, combustion experiments, and various undergraduate learning spaces.

Information Session: The Mechanical Engineering Major

Location: 3106 Etcheverry Hall

Noon-1pm

Learn about exciting research in mechanical engineering, hear an overview of the undergraduate program, and discover why mechanical engineering is such a dynamic, versatile discipline.

Mechanical Engineering Student Panel

Location: 3106 Etcheverry Hall

1pm-2pm

Mechanical engineering will answer your questions about what the academics, diversity and climate are like in this exciting department. Learn why you might choose to attend Cal, and get tips on how to navigate your first year.

Sponsored by AIAA, Cessna Aircraft Company, and Raytheon Missile Systems, this annual competition invites graduates and undergrads from across the world to design, build, and test an unmanned, electric powered, remote-controlled airplane that can complete a pre-determined set of tasks.

Bear Works is an engineering-oriented design team that competes annually in SAE's Aero-Design West Competition. We have members from a variety of engineering disciplines - mechanical, electrical, engineering physics - and we are always happy to welcome more! If you want to see what Aero-Design is all about, head over to the SAE website and take a look!

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is an international, professional organization connecting Mechanical Engineers, both in the field and in academia, around the world. Here at Cal, ASME is both a pre-professional and an educational organization geared towards fostering and enriching the academic experience of M.E. students at Berkeley.

CalSTAR, the UC Berkeley Space Technologies and Rocketry Team, is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to design, build, test, and launch rockets. Founded in Fall 2015, CalSTAR is an emerging team looking to compete in NASA's Student Launch. Our beginning plans consist of team growth and certification for launching rockets.

Engineers for a Sustainable World is a national non-profit network of 50 collegiate chapters, all dedicated to building a better and more sustainable world. Every chapter has its own unique culture, and we're pretty proud of ours. We are a diverse mix of students from all majors and backgrounds, united by our passion for helping the environment.

PTS is an International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society. Its mission is to foster high ideals in the engineering profession, stimulate and support departmental activities, promote professional welfare, and develop leadership and citizenship.

The vision of SEE is a world where engineers of all disciplines and skill levels understand their inherent roles as social changemakers, as well as the cultural and environmental implications of their work, and use this knowledge to take responsibility for the impact they will have on society.

We are a group of passionate scientists who want to push the frontier of space research and the space industry. We are not a typical engineering club that focuses on a set competition but rather we focus on making strides in innovating the space technologies.

CalSol, the UC Berkeley Solar Vehicle Team, is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to design, build, test, and race fully solar powered vehicles. Composed of over fifty undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines, CalSol provides students with hands-on experience with real world engineering, project management, and business aptitude.

We design, fabricate, and compete with small formula-style racecars against other colleges from around the world. The FSAE set of rules is in place to test our engineering skills and creativity. During the competition the vehicles are judged in four different categories: static inspection, engineering design, solo performance trials, and high-performance track endurance. We compete in the Formula SAE Lincoln competition in June each year in Lincoln, NE.

UC Berkeley HPV is a student group that conceptualizes and manufactures innovative forms of human powered transportation. Each year, we compete in the ASME HPV competition, and members gain valuable experience in the engineering design process, business management skills, and hands-on building experience.

Description: Our lab is focused on soft tissue biomechanics and tissue regeneration. Specifically, our goal is to understand the mechanical function of the healthy, degenerated and injured soft tissues, including the intervertebral disc and articular cartilage, in order to develop more physiologically relevant repair strategies. Injury, through herniation, or degeneration may lead to debilitating lower back pain.

Description: We focus on designing and developing control strategies for mechanical systems. We are part of the Mechanical Engineering Department at UC Berkeley. For more information, please see our research page or download our research booklet .

Description: We work closely with faculty, surgeons, and industry scientists in order to develop biomaterials for structural function in orthopedic applications. We bring together academic, industrial and clinical perspectives to improve designs and materials used in total joint reconstruction and related devices. Our research broadly spans the device development process. Our current projects includes novel polymer development, mechanical characterization of biomaterials, bench-top testing of innovated implant and material couplings, computational simulations of in-vivo loading, damage assessment of retrievals (micro-and macro-scale), and failure analysis of medical devices.

Description: Focuses on the theoretical and real-time implementation aspects of constrained predictive model-based control. We deal with linear, nonlinear and hybrid systems in both small scale andcomplex large scale applications. Our contributions include the discovery of fundamental theoretical results, the development of novel control algorithms and their experimental validation carried out with the help of coworkers from industries and universities. We deal with a wide range of systems in the automotive field, in the process industries and in robotics, including several full scale industrial problems.